http://www.anandtech.com/show/4142/i...-begins-recall
Basically if you bought one of the new mobos it has a bug that will eventually (after ~3 years) make the 3GB/s sata connections unusable. It's estimated it is going to cost ~$1billion to replace them all. Ouch! If you just the 2x 6GB/s ones you should be fine though.
Just thought everyone who is currently planning on buying one of the new chips should hold off a month. Probably until the new Z boards are released.
I thought it was just the processor, not the entire mobo?
Processor is fine, chip on the mobo is faulty.Originally Posted by Ron
Ah right, must have misread what I saw about it earlier.
Got an I5 2500k with a P8P67 evo mobo a few days ago, I feel kinda fucked now but meh. I can still hook my ssd and hdd's up to the 6gb/s ports, those will be fine in the long run.
This system is smoking ass by the way, just hit 4.9ghz stable on air with fairly decent temps.
Eh if it effected me, i really wouldn't bother getting it recalled tbh. It doesn't effect SATA ports 0 or 1, so unless you have more than 2 HDD's then it won't affect you either.
However it's not a problem with the SATA ports, but a bug with the actual chipset, so you never know it might manifest other issues down the line also. Bit of a tough pickle, especially for those who upgraded to 1155 and have got rid of their old PC's already.
Who does that right after a new tech comes out? Most people I know wait a while before doing a complete upgrade, esp. considering the industry has a tendency to ship the first few batches with some flaw (usually not fatal) that is silently corrected later on. But then there's the argument "But I have a warranty so that's fine" and then there's my counter "but you have to send your shit in and in the meantime you have no working computer, bro." I dunno.
"But if you are so nuts about getting latest tech then you should have more than 1 computer."
Just Speaking out of my experience.
Always had a laptop laying around and good old core2duo
expensive mishap.
I was planning on getting a z68 mobo as soon as they got released but now I'm planning on waiting to see what's up with bulldozer and do a decision then since most mobo issues will probably be fixed and AMD might have something pretty fast on bulldozer as they're re-releasing the fx name.
Last edited by .Yoss.; 01-02-11 at 05:26 PM.
darn I really want to upgrade my hardware now. I can wait longer though. Rish you said that sata 0 and 1 are unaffected, can you give me a reference or link to that, my hardware is getting wonky and I could use a new upgrade. I just wanna make sure it's good.
From the article Rob linked:
"Interestingly enough the problem doesn’t affect ports 0 & 1 on the 6-series chipset. Remember that Intel has two 6Gbps ports and four 3Gbps ports on P67/H67, only the latter four are impacted by this problem."
Basicly all the SATA-300 ports are borked, I've read that in a 3 year span the performance can degrade by a whopping 5%! ._.
But yah the SATA-600 ports are fine. I've switched to them already.
Don't know if I'm going to RMA my mobo though, it's such a hassle.
sounds good! I may just RAID my hdd's soon, although having dual boot on separate hdd saved my ass from a serious hdd crash
Layout can be different per motherboard so bluntly saying port 0 & 1 are fine is a bit stupid. That guy's obviously a nuthead. On my ASUS P8P67-evo mobo the first four ports are the sata-300 ports. Then there's 2 sata-600gb ports form the intel controller, and after them 2 600 ports with a marvell controller.
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